Hot Wings & Blue Cheese Dip

Mmmmmm, who doesn't love hot wings?!?! We love wings - I buy a big ole' bag of chicken wings at Costco and they are always a nice treat to have every once in a while. We cool 'em all different kind of ways - fried, baked or grilled. This time, we fried 'em! The sauce was really interesting because it called for Worcestershire and hot sauce at the end of the cooking time and I really think it created a very tasty sauce. It wasn't overwhelmingly spicy to us either... and baking it after frying it was a little eyebrow raising because I thought they would get really soggy. Note: we hate soggy wings - extra crispy please! But the flavor just really bakes into the chicken and they weren't too soggy so I think I'll definitely use this method again.

Hot Wings & Blue Cheese Dip

Serves 2

Hot Wings

ingredients

• 1/4 cup mayo

• 2/3 cup sour cream

• 1/4 cup blue cheese crumbles

• 5 dashes Worcestershire sauce

• canola oil for frying

• 18 wings

• 4 oz franks hot sauce

• 1/4 stick butter

• hot sauce

• celery & radish sticks for dipping

• Kosher Salt & Freshly Cracked Black Pepper

directions

1. Make the dip by combining the first 4 ingredients with S&P to taste. Set in fridge covered until ready to serve.

2. Make the sauce by heating the franks and butter over medium low until bubbly, turn off the heat and add a few shakes of hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce.

3. Fry the wings by heating 3" canola oil to 375º. Add half the wings and fry 5 minutes until golden brown, then fry the 2nd half for another 5 minutes. Drain on paper towels. While the wings are cooking preheat the oven to 325º. Place the hot wings in a baking dish and pour the wing sauce all over and toss around until coated. Bake for 15 minutes in oven, remove let cool slightly and serve with the blue cheese dip and veggies.

Blue Cheese dip with celery sticks & radish slices

Enjoy!

This recipe was adapted from Pioneer Woman.